Education:
10/1999 - Degree in Physics: 110/110 cum laude [University of Pisa]
11/1999 - Diploma in Physics: 70/70 cum laude [Scuola Normale Superiore]
07/2005 - Ph.D. in Semiconductor Physics: 70/70 cum laude [Scuola Normale Superiore]
Experience:
01/2017-present Associate Professor at the University of Pisa, Pisa
08/2013-12/2016 CNR Scientist, Istituto Nanoscienze, Trieste
10/2011-07/2013 CNR Scientist, Istituto Officina dei Materiali, Trieste
06/2011-10/2011 ARAID Investigator, Instituto de Nanocienciia de Aragon, Zaragoza, Spain
06/2006-12/2007 Visiting Scientist at Lund Technical University, Lund, Sweden
11/2005-06/2011 Assistant Professor at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Further short visits:
2019 - Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
2016/17/18 - Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia
2013 - Beijing University, China
2012 - Columbia University, USA
2005/06 - Harvard University, USA
Teaching experience at UniPi:
2018-today - 204BB [9CFU] Solid State Physics (LM in Physics)
2020-today - 042BB [12CFU] Tecnologie Digitali (LT in Physics)
2021 - 285BB [6CFU] Tecnologie Digitali Avanzato (LT in Physics)
2017-2018 - 154BB [3CFU] Complements of Electromagnetism and Optics (LM in Geophysics)
2017-2020 - 335BB [6CFU] Mathencatics and Physic Complements (LM in Geophysics)
Language skills:
TOEIC listening&reading: 960/990 [C1]
TOEIC speaking&writing: 380/400 [C1]
Research activities:
2015-present Strain and transport phenomena in two-dimensional materials [ACS Nano 16, 1291 (2022)]
2013-present Investigation of thermoelectric effects in individual nanostructures [ACS Nano 19, 3033 (2019)]
2006-present Single charge transport in heterostructured nanowires [Nano Lett. 20, 1693 (2020)]
2000-2006 Mesoscopic transport in high-mobility AlGaAs heterostructures, quantum Hall effects, edge transport [PRL 95, 156804 (2005)]
Projects after 2010:
2023-2024 - BIHO [FETPathfinder "Prometheus"]
2023-2027 - DigiQ: Digitally Enhanced European Quantum Technology Master
2019-2022 - [Unit coordinator] Tuning and understanding Quantum phases in 2D materials
2016-2021 - Quantra - Quantum transport in nanoelectornic systems
2015-2017 - [PI] Tuning correlated transport and localization in low-dimensional electron systems with spin-orbit interaction
2016-2017 - [PI] Thermoelectricity in nanodevices: harnessing quantum and interaction effects
2011-2013 - Dispostivi ad effetto campo basati su nanofili e superconduttori ad alta temperatura critica
Scientific Activities:
- 108 publications (Scopus)
- 1 patent on Quantum Hall metrology
- 2991 citations, h-index 31 (Scholar)
Main refereeing Activities:
Referee for indexed journals including Nature Physics, Nature Communication, Physicsal Review Letters, Physical Review Applied, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, Applied Physics Letters, etc. Ph.D. referee for Univ. New South Wale, Lund Univ., Univ. of Genova, Univ. of Copenhagen, Univ. of Basel (twice), Univ. of Trieste, Univ. of Grenoble Alpes (twice), Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics. Sporadic project refereeing for Bando Rita Levi Montalcini, QuantERA, Swiss National Foundation, Human Frontiers of Science Program, Estonian Research Foundation. Commissions: undergraduate admission at Scuola Normale Superiore (2010 and 2021), Ph.D. admission at UniPi (2018).
Main committees after 2010:
2023 - [UniPi] Co-organizer of the Summer School "2D Quantum Matter"
2018-today - [UniPi] Giunta CISIM (Centro Interdipartimentale di Scienza e Ingegneria dei Materiali)
2018-today - [UniPi] Commissione Paritetica per la Ditattica at the Physics Department
2016 - Co-organizer of the topical session "Quantum One-Dimensional Systems" at CMD-26 in Groningen
2020-today - Board Member of the EPS section "Semiconductors and Quantum Materials"
2013-2018 - Editorial Board of Semiconductor Science and Technology